Enough Time Quotes - Page 12

• Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

  Eric Chaisson

  Evolution, Given, Evolve

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.435, Columbia University Press

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• We are living in a time where we just don't have enough time. People are rushed. They're over worked, over scheduled. Not enough resources. ...But the thing that I want people to understand in this campaign is that families can make small manageable changes in their lives that can have pretty significant impacts.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Impact, People

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• If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Dancing, Choices

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• I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

  Andy Rooney

  Sarcastic, Food, Sarcasm

  "Eating Out With Andy Rooney; With Every Course, an Opinion" by Bryan Miller, www.nytimes.com. October 04, 1989.

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• I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

  Denzel Washington

  Party, Awards, Matter

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• Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Priorities In Life, Important

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love Is, Matter, Message In A Bottle

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• If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.

  Michael Shannon

  Giving, Give Me, Reasonable

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• Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

  Julian Barnes

  Giving, Decision, Whimsical

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.93, Random House

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• I’d like to have enough time and quiet
  To think about absolutely nothing,
  To not ever feel myself living,
  To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

  Al Berto

  Eye, Thinking, Quiet

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• The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

  Greg Bryk

  Television, Shooting, Difficult

  Source: collider.com

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• We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspiration, Responsibility, Self

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.21, Penguin

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• If we spend enough time with God, He'll either make us strong enough that problems won't bother us, or He'll show us what to do about them.

  Joyce Meyer

  Strong, Problem, Bother

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2012

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• We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspiration, Thinking, Meditation Practice

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.76, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Nothing is ever in such short supply at a race track as time. It doesn't seem to matter whether we are at the track for a race meeting or for testing - there is never enough time.

  Carroll Smith

  Race, Track, Matter

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• There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.

  Craig Stone

  World, Misery, Wallowing

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• Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

  Dean Koontz

  Motivation, Character, Thinking

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1053, Bantam

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• Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

  Jimmy Wales

  Wikipedia, Screw Ups, Given

  "Deconstructing Wikipedia at the Berkman Center". www.cnet.com. May 15, 2008.

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• There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Our World, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a dead body - you're just electrocuting it and keeping it sort of shambling on. There is a lot more creator-owned stuff now, and some of it I look at and go, 'Oh, that's his pitch for a TV show. That's his pitch for a movie. That's him saying oh, this kind of thing sells.' I didn't do that.

  Mike Mignola

  Book, Tv Shows, Body

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• There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?

  Elizabeth Banks

  Helping, Plans, Humans

  "Elizabeth Banks on "Great Broad" Nora Ephron and Her Summer Camp Romance". Interview with Tara Block, www.popsugar.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.

  Vera Farmiga

  Dollars, Film, Millions

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• Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

  Nora Ephron

  Home, Night, Unhappy

  Nora Ephron (1991). “Nora Ephron Collected”

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• Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Strong, Moss, Meals

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.169, A&C Black

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• We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Time, Numbers, Finite Number

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